This report is a followup to, and confirmation of, an earlier WADA investigation that uncovered evidence of Russian doping through a variety of means, from sophisticated regulation of athletes’ body chemistry to crude brute-force methods, such as swapping urine samples through a hole in a wall. That report, released in July, covered the years from 2011 to mid-2015, a period which included three different major worldwide competitions which Russia hosted.

“We are now able not only to confirm the findings of the first report but also to put them in sharper and clearer focus,” said Richard McLaren, a Canadian lawyer who led the investigation and prepared the report.

Think back to the Rio Olympics opening ceremony for a moment. If the first thought that came to mind was the shirtless,oiled-up flag bearer for Tonga, Pita Taufatofua, you likely aren’t alone. (He reprised his look for the Closing Ceremony, as you see above.)

But Taufatofua, a taekwondo athlete who lost his first-round match by the mercy rule, isn’t yet ready to give up on his Olympic dream.

“I’m going to be taking my Olympic dream one step further,” Taufatofua said in the video. “My goal is to let people see, if I can do it, they can do it. The goal is to hunt down that Olympic medal at the 2018 Olympics.”

PyeongChang 2018 president Heebeom Lee confidently talked about the mountain resort area being a “reliable host” for the Winter Olympics at last week’s World Press Briefing. However, a dark cloud has unexpectedly enveloped the South Korea city.

Police said the 62-year-old IOC official was discovered in his hotel room around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, the last day of PyeongChang 2018’s week-long conference with members of the media, national organization committees and IOC from around the world. The World Press Briefing comprised day-long logistics presentations and tours of the competition venues and accommodations.

Police, who did not reveal the IOC official’s name, are investigating the cause of death.

News of the fatal shooting of Tyson Gay’s daughter – 15-year-old Trinity – outside a Louisville restaurant spread through the sports world on Sunday, with the track and field community taking to social media to express their own heartfelt grief for the American 100-meter record holder’s tragic loss.

USA Track and Field tweeted its “thoughts and prayers” to Gay and his family.

Sending our thoughts & prayers to @TysonLGay & his loved ones as they mourn the tragic & senseless loss of his daughter, Trinity.

Some American sprinters, including Natasha Hastings and Arman Hall of the United States’ gold medal-winning 4×400 relay teams at the Rio Olympics, also took to Twitter to show they were thinking of their teammate.

My heart is so heavy for my teammate and friend, @TysonLGay, today. Praying for him and his family in these tough times. ❤️

Two cars were involved in a shootout at the Cook Out restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus. Trinity Gay, 15, who was reportedly not in either car, was hit in the neck and pronounced dead at 4:41 a.m. Sunday. Police are seeking the drivers of the cars based on descriptions.

Natalie Bieule likes to think it’s her grandfather, Joaquin. Life took one of his legs, too. Well, actually, cancer did before he passed away at 69. Hers was claimed by a drunk driver in a head-on car accident a decade and a half ago when she was 18. Her right leg had to be amputated below the knee. The same leg as the one her grandfather lost. He sometimes called her Joaquina.

The accident that made her an accidental Paralympian in the F44 discus event happened back home in Miami. She had just graduated high school, and she was headed to a friend’s house to stay over.

“I just remember getting pulled out of the car and telling myself I need to stay alive and see my mom one more time,” Bieule recalls. “The Jaws of Life extracted me out of the passenger’s side.”

“I had a dancing career ahead of me,” she remembers. “That’s what I wanted to make a living out of, theater and dancing. And then I got a lot of ‘You can’t’ and ‘You won’t be able to.’ It was a difficult thing for me, but I think my life turned out better than I would have ever expected. I wouldn’t take it as misfortune; I take it as life-changing.”

Former open-wheel driver Alex Zanardi won a gold medal at the Paralympics for the third time Wednesday.

The 49-year-old was victorious in the H5 time trial in Rio De Janeiro. The H5 is a hand-cycling road event and Zanardi’s winning time of 28:36.81 beat out Australia’s Stuart Tripp by more than 2.5 seconds.

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Zanardi’s Rio gold comes almost exactly 15 years after he lost parts of his legs in a horrific open-wheel accident. Zanardi was driving for Mo Nunn Racing in the CART race at Lausitz (Germany), on September 15, 2001. Zanardi’s car spun after he left the pits late in the race and he was struck by the oncoming car of Alex Tagliani.

The impact from Tagliani’s car tore the nose off the car. Open-wheel cockpits are unlike a traditional driver’s seat setup. Drivers sit low in the car and with their legs straight out in front towards the nose of the vehicle.

The World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack on its databases, and is blaming the incursion on a Russian hacker group. The attack on WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System resulted in the release of records on four American athletes: Simone Biles, Elena Delle Donne, Venus Williams and Serena Williams. The information posted online consisted of confidential medical data, including Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) for permitted medications, and doping officials were quick to note that the information was in no way incriminating or indicative of any cover-up.

“While it is an evolving situation, at present, we believe that access to ADAMS was obtained through spear phishing of email accounts; whereby, ADAMS passwords were obtained enabling access to ADAMS account information confined to the Rio 2016 Games,” WADA said in a statement. “At present, we have no reason to believe that other ADAMS data has been compromised.”

Fancy Bear promises more data dumps with “sensational proof of famous athletes taking doping substances” are to come.